Opinion: Bombing Immigration Reform?

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... Alston bombings have a blowback on the effort to re form our immigration system ... is with Indiana Republicans and cuts had to say this week and ... immigration is an ... issue that has dramatic economic effect on American citizens security implications ... just push it back a month or two ... let the emotions settle down letters to an irrational way ... to make good judgments ... based on the urgency of the moment ... Congress has is ... no way does rushing to judgments without thinking through carefully ... we're talking months here or a few weeks not years ... political diary editor Jason Riley also the author of wet and and ... joins me now I Jason ... I'm confused what do the Boston bombings in immigration reform have to do with one another I thought that the son of brothers came into the country of legal clean ... write a new gas say the sale of out of the nine eleven hijackers were connected to a Mexican migrants coming here to work ... aam but in the public's mind of border security is border security and people ... I've ... come into the country ... that we don't want hear ... whether they can come in legally or illegally ... aam a kid's linked to these horrific events and so ... right before on nine eleven President Bush and the sun to Fox's than the present of Mexico while working on an immigration deal aam fell in love more border security along our southern southern border of a guest worker program so forth but nine eleven but all that up ... on the back burner for quite some time for almost half decade ... and so there is a danger that aam that the Boston bombing could come to derail immigration reform which is currently in place to live in addition the Senate last week I we just heard one word peace in this opinion red cent and echoed by others yes there have been a number of senators who have invoked Boston ... in discussing immigration Jeff sessions of Alabama Chuck Grassley ... of Iowa and today Rand Paul ... of Kentucky ... aam who is also consider presidential material and twenty sixteen ... is ... talking about the security implications of the Boston bombing in the context ... of discussing immigration reform that summer these guys ... are always weren't any rate I any admin not changing the margins and top brass have opposed increasing legal immigration to the H1 B visas are cast worker program for low skill workers and so forth ... over the years old so this is just a any excuse to go out there whether it's high unemployment for securing all find a reason all of ... the Rand Paul had been making noises ... about aam being a little less restriction is the Nasdaq ... aam the head of the former congressman and a well drawn Energy and I had a brace of hearing him this morning was a little bit more surprising than hearing the app so what's the response from the pro immigration reform camp that the bill has ... good security elements in it so well sometimes ... the baths ... what we want is for border security to be a will focus ... on the bed that's ... right now our border security is focused on chasing the people who come here to mow lawns and her babies and flip burgers and chop up chicken had set out ... at plants in Arkansas and so forth ... and ... we have limited resources so last time spent chasing down those folks ... would mean theoretically more time spent chasing down your drug dealers are potential terrorists cure human smugglers ... and so forth so a guest worker program that allows economic migrants to come here illegally ... what makes the country safer ... Jason We and John McCain on the show last weekend his point was looking for in legalize eleven million people ... we have to register with the government ... the eleven million people we can suddenly keep better track of it you buy that argument that there is something to that I mean ... you wanna know who's in the country it's important to know who's here ... and I think ... the vast majority of people coming would use the front door ... it was available to them ... they all eleven the channels they have no desire ... to come here and work in the underground economy that would certainly mean ... more revenues for the government putting these people on the books paying all the taxes they Ardi paintings like sales taxes ... property taxes that they rent ... but to have them all on the books in the above ... Brown economy certainly would make up government better oftentimes over from a revenue perspective so they're all kinds of arguments for ... giving people legal is more legal ways ... to come here but in this context the most important thing that would do is free up resources ... to focus on the next potential Boston ... based Islamist thinking so much common sense and sister ... I am not taking an all this